“But Aeschylus’ cosmos goes beyond Homer’s in presenting Reason, Persuasion, as an integral aspect of the cosmos that was otherwise absent in Homer.” ...

“Perhaps it is because of my own bias toward [Darryl Cooper as a friend, but the responsibility for such imprecise talk is something I place on [Tucker] Carlson, not on his interview subject.” ...

Note from the Publisher: This piece belongs to the Merion West Legacy series, referring to articles and poems published between 2016 up to Spring 2025.

“Now, pink glitter seems to be the spark of a new revolution in Mexico against gender violence.” ...

(Peter Singer at Crawford Forum 2017) “It has published on a range of topics that perhaps seemed controversial to someone at some time (specifically, academics in the early 2020s) but certainly not to ...

“The cultural and theological division between Islam and the West is real, and these differences in religious philosophies play themselves out in a very concrete way in the modern world, just as they ...

“Like the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, continental Europe would, therefore, do well to dial down the moralizing rhetoric associated with wokeness and return to the enlightened ...

“Notice how Maistre does not consider the actions of the people valid because they committed a crime against the nation by undermining its sovereign.” ...

“to the garage bound welders masked/in metal, tampering the eternal flame” ...

“But there are times in every polemicist’s career when he must take a genuine stab at intellectual respectability, put away sloganeering and manic hyperbole and see not through the dark lens of ...

Pierre Bouillon’s 1797 painting “The Death of Cato the Younger (of Utica)” “[Josiah] Osgood’s book is a welcome and exciting read about the rivalry between Caesar and Cato; Cato, in the process, ...

(“The Four Doctors of the Western Church,” Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430), by Gerard Seghers) “In a brilliant stroke of irony, Augustine’s reading of Roman history not only reveals the many ...